The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-15
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

Rev. Nat. G. Taylor. father Of the Gov
ernor of Tennessee, died a few days since
in CaEter County Tenn. He was ComEis-
sioner of Indian Affairs under President
Johnson.
The cotton factors and buyers of New
Orleans have resolved to employ no men,
bers OF the labor unions.
Bob McWhirter, alias Robinson, and
Mont. Hill were arrested at Shreveport,
La, few days ago on warrants charging
them with horse-steahng in Texas. Thoy
had been in Shreveport several times with
stock, and had always been looked upon
as honest dealers Their last bunch con
sisted of nine horses, five of which were
identified as stolen, two of them belong
ing toJ. A. Neil, OFF Grayson County, and
two to a E. Hughes, of Collinsville,
Grayson County.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
affirmed the decision of the lower court IN
the case of the Louisville, New Orleans &
Texas railroad VS. 7. G. Thompson. This
is a suit brought for damages by Thom p
son against the railroad company for in
jurie3 received at Knoxville, Franklin
County, III January, 1856 He sued for
$50 600 damages, but the jury only award
ed him 5000, which the Supreme Court
af1i rmed
The Montgomery (Ala.) aud Atlanta
(Ga.) military companies have res olved to
withdraw from the Washington drill be-
cause of the admissio ion of colored organi-
zations
William Myrick, a negro boy about
eighte en- years old, was tried in the City
Court at Montgomery, Ala, few days
ago, on a charge of felonious assault, con
victed and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life
The most disastrous fire that ever visit
ed Louisville, Tex, consumed the large
Touring mill of the Louisville Mill Com
pany a few days ago. The loss is 2l000,
with no insurance.
Two attempts were recently made to cut
levees along the Mississippi in Louisiana,
probably for the purpose Of getting water
to float logs to mill. The guards ave
been doubled, and armed with Winchester
fles.
The ladies of Manassas, Va, have
| formed memorial association for the
purpose of putting a stone wall around
the Confederate cemetery on the historic
hills near Bull Run. If each Southern
State will contribute $2O9, the proposed
wall could be built.
The apple, pear and peach trees are in
bloom in many parts of Virginia. There
always comes a frost in that State with
the April full moon. Cold rains and snow
| have given pFemonitiOns of its coming.
Hon. John H. Reagan has recovered
| sufficiently from his late fall from his
| horse at Palestine, Tex, to be out on the
streets and attend to his private and Off
cial CORES spondence, which has accumu-
| lated largely during his confinement to
| has bed.
Rufus Fuller, a prisoner in irons,
! jumped from an east-bound train on the
| East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia rail
| road near Knoxville, Tenn, few nights
ago, while the train was running at the
! rate of forty-five miles an hour, and es-
! capped with but little injury.
/ Scott PickIer a white boy thirteen years
old, who shot and killed Chester DOdd,
! another white boy about ten years old, in
| Jackson, Tenn, last January, was tried
! recently in the Circuit Court for murder
| III the first degree. The case was ably
| argued on both sides. The jury returned
a verdict of acquittal.
! Hon. D. Wyatt AIKEN, late Representa-
tive in Congress from the Third South
Carolina district, died at his home il
! Cokesbury, S. C., few days ago aged
fifty-nine. He had been i'll for a long
time.
DIR. NJ /. Moore, an honored citizen OF
/ Gainesville, Fla, was recently driven
from home by anonymous letters charg-
ing him with malpractice. An indigna-
! ton meeting was held by two hundred
prominent citizens, who invited him to re-
turn, pledged him protection, and sub
/ scribed 500 as a reward for the detection
I of the letter writer.
The statue of General Albert Sidney
| John son, who fell while leading the Con
| federate army on the first day of the bat
tie of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. was unveiled
| in New Orleans con the 6Sh inst, the
twenty fifth anniversary of that ever
memorable struggle.
The ruling sensation at Montgomery
| Ala, is the finding of the lost book IL
which was recorded the bond of ex-Treas
urer Vincent. When he defaulted and
left the State, in January, 1888, the bool
could not be found, and the suppositior
was that ne had made way with it. I
was found few days since behind an olC
! safe in the TreaSurer's office. Three
/ bondsmen who could not be remem bereC
are still liable, but are reported to have
| very little property. Vincent has Away:
denied the charge that he made way witt
| the book and bond.
Miss Carrie Sharp, of Shelbyville, Tenn.
VINO was to have been marriei to A. II
Ruth a few days ago, was accidentally
shot and killed on the evening preceding
her wedding day, while handling re
volver which had dropped from Mr.
Ruth's pocket. She was buried in he
wedding dress.
The citizens of Uptonville, KY, and sur
rounding country are at the highest pitcl
of e1 citement over new and rich dis
covery of underground treasures lying
near there. Very valuable iron ore, foun.
oy analysis to be eighty per cent. pure
and in almost inexhaustible quantities, 1
found Just on the western boundary Of tn
town.
1t being generally understoo d that on
or more negro companies will enter tn
military encampment at Washington, The
Douglass Rifles, of Tyler, Tex, have deter
mined not to attend the encampment uu
/ less 1t is officially announced that TIL
negroes will neither enter the enc1mD
ment as companies nor participate in tn
drill.
AIva Fullerton, a white farmer, VIII
livel ten miles from Opelilxa, Lee County
Ala, commtted suicide a few nights ago
hanging himself in his barn with a pIir o
GLOW lines He was about thirty year
old and leaves wife and seven childrer
Harry Boggs and August Massoni trie
recently at Louisville, KY, for committin
an aggravated assault on Rev Stephen 7
Holcomb in that city in January last, wer
found guilty by the jury, who fixed thei
punishment at fine of Sl,0)0 each an
five years imprisonment
Charleston is getting over the snakes.
A little son Of I. J. Folds, of Hawl1i ms
vile, Ga. went to his traps the other dal
and found three partridg ges, and, takini
them out, pulleI their heads of. One o
the headless partridgss few away an
could not be fOuu I. and the astonishe
boy went home with three heads and oul.
two birds.
Mrs Amanda Sykes, of Edmonton. Ca
has goose which for the past four year
has begun to lay for the season on the da
that complaining was commenced on tn
place. No matter whether the day was i
February or in March, the goose bega1
laying each year on the verv day that the.
commenced planting corn.
It is asserted that fully five thousand